Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-341) and index.
The character of philosophical influence in Pasternak's early prose -- Similarity and contiguity in Pasternak's early poetics and their philosophical underpinnings -- Arguing with the sun in "The mark of Apelles" -- "Letters from Tula" : "Was ist Apperzeption?" -- Contextualizing the intellectual aims of 1918 : from "Letters from Tula" to The childhood of Luvers -- "The long days" in The childhood of Luvers : chronology of a permeable self -- "Stranger" in The childhood of Luvers : disruptions in chronology and the collision with other worlds -- Pasternak's symbolic world : prose and philosophy